Eelyn Lee is an award-winning artist and filmmaker who has exhibited across UK including Barbican, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery as well as internationally in Paris, Berlin, Bogotá and Toronto.
Her art practice combines collective research, devised theatre, screen writing and filmmaking to create frameworks for collaboration. Eelyn's Hong Kong/English heritage motivates her interest in race, identity and ’othering’. She has recently completed Born on Sunday Silent, a short film funded by BFI Network and is currently developing her debut narrative feature film. Both films explore hidden stories from Britain's colonial past through genre based story-telling.That we would see something translated so profoundly from a theatrical space to a cinematic one in just a handful of days is really extraordinary... A wonderful paradox."
Gareth Evans, film curator (Whitechapel Gallery) on Monster
Ancestral Futures - A Street Procession in SheffieldThursday, 15 August 2024
Ancestral Futures 源流之後 is a processional street performance in honour of the first recorded Chinese people in Sheffield –a group of magicians on tour from China who performed at the Whitsuntide Festival, 1855.
On 31st May, 1855, the lead magician, Teh Kwei 德貴, buried his 5-week old baby in a Sheffield graveyard.... Read More...
Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 Exhibition ReviewMonday, 22 January 2024
' Four Quadrants of the Sky employs mythology as a tool that is both fantastical and particular, to think expansively and interconnectedly—a mythological trans-local. It is an intellectual, theoretical and political work, and also a magical, gorgeous one.' - Emma Bolland. Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 reviewed in Corridor 8. Read the... Read More...
Four Quadrants of the Sky Exhibition Opens 14th SeptMonday, 28 August 2023
Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 completes the second cycle of Performing Identities, an... Read More...
